...Gotta swap out the Fubuki with the Savalette when I get my PDS. A much more elegant weapon for someone like my Violet.

As to Manatech, I was hoping there might be some new developments like the ManaDampers from GURPS. Looks like the boys at Aeon Labs need to burn some midnight oil.

I am very curious about the Martial Arts rules especially if there actually are some for Gun-Fu. Both KK and Death Blossom would benefit from that.

...BTW, just heard from my "Fixer" this morning, he's on it, so I should get the PDF sometime this week.

[edit - double take]

...waitaminute! Gauss Rifle...?

Hell no. I got my rant on about that when they put in the FPS game.

Yeah, but there's a certain amount of style that comes from being able to jam the gun into someone's belly, pull the trigger once, and be pretty damn sure that one of the three rounds fired hit something important.

...awww, gee, wiz you're no fun. Gotta give mundanes some defence against ritual locating/targeting since wards are now pretty much ineffectual.

We did. Manacoffin. And wards are not ineffectual.

Yeah, but if you fire two bursts from a Thunderbolt instead you get style plus an exist wound you could toss a cat through.

29 pages of compiled tables necessary for referencing and no bookmarking in the PDF. This, I'm sorry to say, does not.

Apologies, my bad. "Structural Reinforcement" didn't make the final cut. IIRC It allowed you to increase Bod by 1 (to a max of 3) for 10% decrease in Speed and was a standard mod for drones. Consider this an unofficial mod until you see it on the official website.

29 pages of tables listing page references in all relevant books...

Yes, I noticed the page references in the table and it must have been a pain for someone to look everything up, it's why I cut slack and didn't mention the lack of index at the same time - the tables partially are an index. But the presence of page numbers doesn't preclude PDF bookmarking - you had it in Augmentation. The lack of bookmarks was one of the early things I noticed when I was skimming through the tables looking for things. I had no quick way to find what I wanted other than to click through each page, so call it an average 10 page clicks. I think my housemate can add bookmarks to PDFs though, so I'll ask him. I imagine this would be more of a nuisance for people with slower computers as they'd have to wait for the text to resolve each time to see if it was what they wanted or not.

Thanks a lot for getting back to me on the Body modifications. It would be great if that could get the semi-official status of appearing on a website, but I'm having fun with the modification rules already. Will post some of my creations as one of my PDFs when I'm done.

-K.

...Taj pomoć za nuždu mene na taj naÄ?in sretan previÅ¡e.

[Giggles girlishly]

--Leela G.

Translation, please.

now that sounds very action movie/anime like

hmm, so far this sounds like a very promising book.

ill wait for the hard cover and then order up a bunch from battlecorps, as i fear order from them is more reliable then trying to get them from any "local" outlet...

Yep.

Yep

[quote]Oh, and while I'm at it: Is everyone really OK with the idea that you can spend 7 bp and pick up Vicious Blow and a Shock Hand or Taser weapon to threaten a 5-7(e)P -half AP damage code? I'm more or less fine with it, but it seems a wee tad inexpensive relative to the other tricks you could pull off with the Martial Arts rules.[quote]
Relatively inexpensive was part of the idea.

Damn near so...any professional runner in SR3 or SR4 should have a set of FFBA. In many ways, it serves as an easy bar to set posers apart from the rest.

I miss "The Turtle"...Troll with high end Dermal plating, FFBA, mil-spec body armour, and a long coat, fromback in second edition..sure he could not mve very fast..but the thing took a A Vindicator loaded with APDS rounds to the chest way back in SR2...

You forgot the Gel Packs.

No - go back to your vacation and relax!

Don't worry about the book marking being entirely missing. It is there and it works, I am, as you surmise, saying that I would like bookmarking in the tables section. Searching the text for the entries that you want doesn't work as searches start from the beginning of the book. And as I said, on slower computers it can take a second for a page to resolve so you can see what's in there, hence bookmarks within the table section as we had with Augmentation (which had fantastic bookmarking through out) would be useful.

You do have a problem with the opening fiction sections in that the spacing is shot to pieces on at least my machine (KPDF on Linux, handles everything else I've ever given it perfectly, so suspect the PDF). But worry about it when you get back!

Thanks for finishing this,

-K.

No..they weren't out when he was being run...Only Samurai to have not done something stupid to my rigger..He was finally killed by corp-sec guy wiht our first taste f the Fields of Fire stuff: an Anti-tank missle fired from that BIG missile launcher..(After that, he went for a mage..and then I had to eject two samurai in the Ejection Seat of DOOM! for pulling a gun on my rigger and telling me how to drive. Did you know that a Street Sam in an exploding ejection seat makes a great anti-personnel weapon?)

OOOO! That brings this up: Did they include rules for determining the shrapnel and kill zone when you blow up a heavily cybered character? As in, put shaped charges behind him and set them off?

Gel Packs came out in the Street Samurai Catalog, which was the very first supplement for SR1.

Wow..shows how long it has been since I played SR2...(never played SR1)..Don't know why the guy did not have them then...come to think of, I don't recall ever using them, myself.

I swear they were a Fields of Fire add on...

Ok, I finally got it downloaded. Huzzah!

Other thing I note about the vehicles stuff, is this almost a rigger's book hidden in here? It almost is, so now I'm afraid to ask... is there another edition around the corner? *looks around all paranoid*

No, no..we have to wait until they come out Arsenal 2 Revised.

I admit, I was kind of hoping that we would one day see a new Rigger Black Book with the full page entries and such again...I so miss the full page ads with the commentary right under them...